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English football in mourning over passing of Cyrille Regis

Clarence Walton |Tuesday, January 16, 2018

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LEGEND Cyrille Regis has died at the age of 59

The attacker then moved to Coventry, bagging 238 league appearances and 47 goals. After school, he earned a City and Guilds diploma as an electrician, but played Sunday league and non-league football while working full-time.

West Brom chairman John Williams said: "This is terribly shocking and upsetting news and our thoughts and condolences are with Cyrille's family".

Apart from being a powerful and talented striker, Regis inspired a generation of black players at a time when they were a rarity in the top echelons of English football and were regularly subjected to racial abuse from crowds.

Regis won the FA Cup with Coventry in 1987 and ended up making 238 appearances for the club.

He became only the third black player to be capped by England when made his debut in a 4-0 win over Northern Ireland.

"Cyrille was a pioneer in British football and hugely respected by everyone in the game".

Regis was employed as an agent by the Stellar Group, whose chief executive Jonathan Barnett said: "Cyrille was a wonderful person to work with and his death has left everyone in the company and the players he represented with a great sense of sadness". He was also the agent of sprinter John Regis, who set the United Kingdom 200 metres record in 1994, with a time of 19.87 seconds, which still stands as the national record today.

The trio were honoured with a statue, called The Celebration, in West Bromwich in 2014.

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